Opinion

That’s Why We Do It

Alia Ibrahim- Lebanese writer and journalist

Will there be a day, when we feel less compelled to look over our shoulder – or at our phones – with fear and suspicion? Is it really possible we will feel safe at home again?

Kurdish Politicians Prioritize Power Over People

Hiwa Othman

Thirty years later, corruption is still rife in Kurdistan, and the wealth is controlled by the political elite. The Peshmerga forces are still divided between Erbil and Sulaymaniyah, despite the parties’ promises to unify them.

Armenia’s Revolution Betrayed

Vicken Cheterian

Snap Parliamentary Elections will be held in Armenia on June 20. Will anything survive from the promises of the 2018 peaceful revolution?

Lebanon: An Hour in Line for Fuel

Pascale Sawma

A trauma that involves waiting in line for hours to fill up your car, normalizing living a life without electricity, and accepting the fact that all our savings have been stolen …

Iraq: Protesters Die Demanding a Homeland

Aya Mansour – Iraqi Journalist

Dozens of people fell. Friends were kidnapped and disappeared. And yet the chairs of power did not budge. This hurts me, makes me cry and hate myself and the day I was born here. To see such injustice and not being able to change it, even though we tried. I swear, we tried. We tried so much that we wasted the blood of 650 dreams, and thoughts, and laughs, and innocent faces. But our attempts were not enough. We lost and the government did not lose a thing. Its influence and tyranny only increased.

From Gaza to Lod: Palestinian rights hemmed in by racism, missiles and deadly agendas

Diana Moukalled

All the evils seen in recent days in Gaza, Lod and Jerusalem are the inevitable and explosive result of the Israeli occupation that has lasted for over 70 years.

The Federal Republic of Sects

Fadi Twainy

In order to understand the motivation behind recent “Lebanese Federalism”, let’s hear the arguments made by some of its advocates…

Can Marwan Barghouti return the Palestinian issue to Palestine?

Hazem El Amin

INTRO If Barghouti were elected, the president of the Palestinian Authority would be an Israeli prisoner. What else can expose the Palestinian reality to the world? What else can show that the occupation is nothing but a prison?